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Perfected Doom 3 V7 is now availabe, brings numerous gameplay & graphical improvements

Doom 3 fans, here is something special for you today. Modder ‘VGames’ has released a new version of his Perfected mod for Doom 3. Perfected Doom 3 attempts to completely overhaul the entire game with new monsters, rebalanced weapons, rebalanced monster stats, better graphics, new gameplay features. Continue reading Perfected Doom 3 V7 is now availabe, brings numerous gameplay & graphical improvements

DOOM – Next update coming on June 30th, adds Classic DOOM weapon placement & Photo Mode

Bethesda has announced that the next update for DOOM will be released on June 30th. According to the changelog, this patch will add a Photo Mode, as well as classic DOOM weapon placement support. In addition, this update comes with a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find its complete changelog below. Continue reading DOOM – Next update coming on June 30th, adds Classic DOOM weapon placement & Photo Mode

New Brutal Doom video shows off volumetric lights and water reflections (tech demo available for download)

Modder ‘SGtMarkIV’ has released a video, showcasing some of the new graphical effects – volumetric lights and water reflections – that he’s currently working on. SGtMarkIV aims to implement these new effects in the upcoming version of Brutal Doom 64. Continue reading New Brutal Doom video shows off volumetric lights and water reflections (tech demo available for download)

DOOM – Next update will bring new Photo Mode, Classic DOOM weapon placement & Snapmap features

Bethesda has announced some of the key features that will be included in the next update for DOOM. According to the publisher, DOOM’s next update will include several improvements and will introduce a new Photo Mode, as well as a Classic DOOM weapon placement/view model option. Continue reading DOOM – Next update will bring new Photo Mode, Classic DOOM weapon placement & Snapmap features

DOOM surpasses 500K sales on the PC

It appears that DOOM is doing well on the PC as id Software’s title has sold 500K units so far. This information comes from Steamspy; a Steam stats service based on Web API provided by Valve. Steamspy’s numbers are slightly delayed – if Total War: WARHAMMER’s stats are anything to go by – so we can safely assume that DOOM did sell 500K units on the PC. Continue reading DOOM surpasses 500K sales on the PC

DOOM fan tries to recreate a 100K Revenants map, runs immediately into SnapMap limitations

It appears that while DOOM’s SnapMap is kind of cool, it’s not as powerful or as friendly to modders, and comes with a lot of limitations. As we can see below, YouTube’s ‘MarphitimusBlackimus’ has tried to recreate a map with 100K Revenants, and ran immediately into SnapMap’s limitations. MarphitimusBlackimus was unable to create such a map, as he was limited to 64 Revenants (and 21 empty rooms). Continue reading DOOM fan tries to recreate a 100K Revenants map, runs immediately into SnapMap limitations

DOOM – PC Performance Analysis

DOOM is a highly anticipated game as it’s the first title that is being powered by the new id Tech 6 Engine. id Tech 6 is an OpenGL/Vulkan based game engine developed by id Software, and we were really looking forward to it. After all, this is the engine that other future Bethesda games will be using, so we were curious whether it would be plagued by the same issues that affected its previous iteration, the id Tech 5. Thankfully, id Software did a great job with this engine and as a result of that, DOOM looks and plays wonderfully on the PC platform. Continue reading DOOM – PC Performance Analysis